On Monday, July 24, 2017, Special Agents of the US Capitol Police (USCP) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Capitol Hill IT contractor Imran Awan as he tried to board an airplane at Dulles International Airport and fly to his homeland of Pakistan via Qatar. The FBI affidavit supporting his arrest alleges Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, filed a fraudulent mortgage loan application.
Hina Alvi had already pulled their children out of school, stuffed over $12,000 in cash and some household goods in cardboard boxes, and left the United States (some might say “fled the United States”) for Pakistan.
Before July 24th, few readers could probably recall hearing anything about Imran Awan. They might have heard something about some damaged computer equipment belonging to some members of Congress being found at a home rented by Awan and his wife. They might have read deep into the already sketchy skews stories that one of the computers found belonged to Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In fact, good ol’ Debbie threatened the USCP in public if it dared process the purloined computer for evidence.
Otherwise, because the AWAN storyline did not involve pimping unsubstantiated gossip about President Trump’s “collusion” with Russia, the national skews media weren’t especially interested. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
Except there was and is something to see.
It seems that Representative Schultz had arranged for Industrious Imran to be the go-to IT contractor for several Democrat members of the House of Representatives, some of them on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. In fact, Industrious Imran and his partners had each been raking in an unusually high amount of money from these contracts for several years.
OpenCdA urges our handful of readers to take the time and read the series of articles by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
There are quite a few reasonable and interesting questions likely to be asked by the USCP and the FBI to determine if the computers and the emails on them contained any personal or national security information that could be used to manipulate and control the members of Congress on behalf of any foreign intelligence service.